| Abstrakt: |
The 'Thaw' generated a powerful stream of memoir literature. The aspiration to sincerity, characteristic of the ëThawí consciousness, put forward ego-literature as a form of direct self-description. Moreover, due to its sincerity, an ego-literary form reveals complicity and compromise nature of the 'Thaw' epoch: a complicated mixture of personal and ideologically allowed opinions. Ilya Erenburgís 'People, Years, Life' (a) is one of the most significant memoir books produced during the ëThawí. Complexity, flexibility of thought are not only form-building principles, but become a major sign of the authorís ideology, which organizes the system of ideas. Erenburg depicts and comprehends contradicted and complicated relations between a personal choice and historical inevitability, between art and reality. The importance of cultural heritage and the idea of cultural continuity are the main values for Erenburg, which are shown in the basic paradigms of the artistic world of the memoirs (the time model, the spatial model and the conception of man). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
